Review of reviews and world's work . ought and in expression. The addresses given a year ago at St. Louisbefore the first meeting of the Methodist Fed-eration for Social Service, and published underthe title of The Socialized Church,^ affirmthat Christianity must be adjusted to the reallife of the people. They deal with the particu-lar questions raised by the effort to do so, andare marked by experience, human sympathy,and good sense. To his labors during a quarter-century forChurch Unity,* Professor Briggs adds, underthat title, a volume of studies on the importantproblems it involves. He is
Review of reviews and world's work . ought and in expression. The addresses given a year ago at St. Louisbefore the first meeting of the Methodist Fed-eration for Social Service, and published underthe title of The Socialized Church,^ affirmthat Christianity must be adjusted to the reallife of the people. They deal with the particu-lar questions raised by the effort to do so, andare marked by experience, human sympathy,and good sense. To his labors during a quarter-century forChurch Unity,* Professor Briggs adds, underthat title, a volume of studies on the importantproblems it involves. He is inbued with thespirit of St. Paul in his willingness to concedepartial interests to universal. He views Protcs- I A Valid Christianity for To-day. By Rt. D. Williams. Macmillan Company. 289 $1 ..JO. - The Mind of Christ. Bv T. Calvin Cicwell. 209 pp. $ 3 The Socialized Church. Bv Worth M. Tipley, Eaton & Mains. 288 pp. $1. * Church TTnitv. Bv Chas. A. Briggs, Scrib-ners. 459 pp. $ PROFESSOR RUDOLF EUCKEN. (Author of The Prob-lem of Human Life.) tantism not as pass-ing away, but as pass-ing on to the idealof the religion ofJesus; Catholicismalso as advancingtoward that noisiertype, and the spiritof genuine Modern-ism as the mediatorof this great evolu-tion. Mr. Henry Frank,tlie minister of an in-dependent religiouscongregation in NewYork, searching for Modern Light onImmortality, findsit in the researches ofl)iology and is the instruc-tive part of his vol-ume; its first halffinds only darkness on the subject elsewhere,even in the teaching of Jesus. Bioplasmic sub-stance constitutes a spiritual body within themortal body, and this is immortal, the perma-nent abode and organ of conscious personality. To this, as confirma-tory of the Gospel,no Christian need ob-ject. An admirable vol-ume by the recipientof the Nobel prizefor literature in 1908,Professor Eucken, ofJena, shows how thegreat thinkers fromPlato to our timevi
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